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In article <r-larkin-2607950926450001@room-11-660.inhs.uiuc.edu>,
r-larkin@uiuc.edu (Ronald P. Larkin) wrote:
>  Now two suggestions if Niles folks are listening.  Comments welcome.
>
>1. When performing a Change Field, my dialog box always pops up with the
>Author field.  However, seldom does a user want to change Author entries
>in a lot of articles; usually one wants to add a keyword, remove an
>extraneous character string from Label, and so on.  The user knows that
>Change Field is intrinsically a little dangerous and mistakes may be
>require going to a backup version of the database.  My own reaction to
>this edgy situation is to concentrate hard on setting up exactly the right
>text string.  If I consequently forget to flip from Author down to
>Keywords or Label, what a mess!
>  The problem is particularly annoying if one is repeating a Change
>Field.  Defaulting back to Author when re-doing a Change Field is
>nonintuitive.
>  Change Field should have no default field, use the user's
>previously-selected field, or permit a Preferences choice of the default
>field.


That totally makes sense. I hope that no users have accidently done any
damage to their libraries because of this. I'll make sure to add your
suggestion to our database of user ideas.

>2.  The waterfowl article below will come up if you do a Find in Any Field
>on "goose"--but also on "swan".  A special Find mode to use Any Subject
>Field would help a lot here.  "Subject" would be any field except Author,
>Editor, Year, Volume, City, Number of Pages, Pages--you get the idea. 
>Those who use these fields in nonstandard ways would undergo no hardship
>because Any Field would retain its original functionality.


This might be possible. However, it is a little hard because we offer
people the choice of how they want to set up their fields. The only
solution is probably to  do a search on multiple fields at the same time. 


Mark Whitney
Tech. Support
Niles & Associates, Inc.
MARK@NILES.COM

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